Sally J. Smith is an American artist who creates fairy house sculptures and land art. [1] [2] She is based in Westport, New York near Lake Champlain [3] [1] in the Adirondack Mountains. [4] She grew up in Shelburne, Vermont and previously worked as a watercolorist [3] and illustrator.
Smith runs the artist studio Greenspirit Arts. [1] She makes sculpted fairy houses out of natural and human-made material, [3] with most of the houses standing 12 to 18 inches tall. [5] She creates both temporary fairy houses in nature and others for indoor display. [1] In 2017, her book Fairy Houses, How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk was published by Cool Springs Press. [6]
Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. [3]